Lexical Semantics -- A Study on Native Mandarin Speakers' Homogeneity of Degree Adverbs and Adjectives -- Assessing Lexical Psycholinguistic Properties in Mandarin Discourse Production by Patients with Aphasia -- Research on The Interactive Elements and Functions of Live Streaming Sales Language --Take "hao bu hao" As an Example -- Chinese Optatives: A Preliminary Study -- The Semantic Features And Pragmatic Functions of Cantonese Quasi-demonstrative Type Quantifier di1: A Comparison With Demonstratives ne1 And go2 -- A Comparative Study of the General Classifier Gè and its Near-synonyms in Modern Chinese --Taking Gè, Zhǒng, and Jiàn as examples -- The Semantic Analysis of Zhexia: from the Perspectives of Spatial Metaphor, Subjectivity and Discourse Function -- Sociolinguistic Aspects of Popular Abbreviations in Hong Kong Cantonese -- The Semantic Features and Construal Mechanisms of the Expectational Negative Adverb Kong in Mandarin -- The Formation Features and Structural Mechanism of Modern Chinese "Vcooking+N" Structure -- Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-alphabet Structure -- Feasibility of Direct Language Transfer of the Verb "To Eat" from Cantonese to Mandarin -- The Usage and Standardization of Function Words in Legislative Chinese Language Overseas: A Case study of Auxiliary Words in the Civil Code of Macao -- The Licensing Contexts of Polarity-sensitive Adverb Sǐhuó ('no matter what'): A Force-dynamic Analysis -- The Influence of Neologisms from Mainland China on Changes in the Lexical Semantics of Hong Kong Cantonese -- Research on the Semantic Collocations of Mental Verbs and the Generative Mechanisms of Polysemy ：The Generative Lexicon Theory Perspective -- Profiling the Mandarin Physical Contact verbs with ná, wò, chí and zhuā using collocational, syntactic and discourse features -- Temporal Hái in Mandarin Chinese Revisited: A Presuppositional Account -- A Study on Semantic Shift of Uncivilized Words in Bullet-screen Comments -- A Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the Adverbial Uses of the Chinese Color Term bai 'white' -- The Semantic Interpretation of Implicit Negative Compound Nouns -- Semantic Preferences of Biran and Yiding: A Distinctive Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Near-synonymous Constructions of "Mod + Verb" -- Zero Anaphora Errors and the Restriction Rules of Zero Anaphora in Discourse for Middle and Senior International Students -- A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of the Spatial Dimension Adjective "Deep/Shallow" from the Perspective of Lexical Typology -- A Study on The Restraining Factors and Its Acting Forces of Selected Components of Chinese Abbreviations -- On the verb Huaiyi with passive voice in Hong Kong-style Chinese -- The Semantic Characteristics of the Counter-Expectation Adverbs "Fǎn'ér" and "Ohiryo" in Chinese and Korean from the Perspective of Comparison -- A Cognitive Approach to the Semantic Change of the Polysemy gàng 'wooden bar' -- An Analysis of One-Dimensional Adjectives from the Perspective of Lexical Semantic Typology -- Semantic Analysis of the Tool-Meaning Quasi-affixes "Jī, Qì, Yí and Jì" -- A Study of adding Psychological feeling into the Model of Synaesthesia at the Morpheme Level in Modern Chinese -- Analysis of the Form and Meaning in Collocation of Chinese " V + color " Verb-object Compounds -- The Effect of Working Memory Capacity on the Figurative Language Processing of Chinese Second Language Learners -- A Study on the Use and Integration of the Network Buzzword 'Rùn' -- A Semantic Analysis of Suffocate Verbs -- From Blame to Exclamation: On the Lexicalization Mechanism and Syntactic-Semantic Function of Cross-layer Sequence Form "guài zhǐ guài" -- A Research on the Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Comparative Characteristics of the Yu Zhi Zeng Ding Qing Wen Jian Dictionary -- A Study on the Combination of the "Artificial/Natural" Semantics in the Chinese NN Attributive-head Compounds.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023, held in Singapore, during May 19-21, 2023. The 61 full papers and 15 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics and related fields, including Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computational Lexicography, Phycological Linguistics, and Sociological linguistics.